yours_truly | Elementary Catch-Up: 1x09

1x09 "You Do It To Yourself"

I don't have any deep thoughts about this one, I just like the whole thing between Joan and Sherlock about the tea.
Oh shoot I forgot about this ending scene. "If there's someplace else you have to be..." "Not tonight, Watson." I am such a sucker for characters silently supporting each other with their presence. He's not there 'cause he wants to meet the ex, he's there for her. ;___;

1x10 "The Leviathan"

ugh the sisters thing. did they tone down this stuff later in the show? it's so tedious.
CASTERLY ROCK SECURITY. Is that an ASOIAF reference or is casterly rock something else too?
Sherlock is so pushy but so sweet, and so sincere underneath the bluster!

1x11 "Dirty Laundry"

You know, I had forgotten about (or my memory underplayed) the show's penchant for letting Sherlock be a sexist dickhead but allowing Joan to comment on his misogyny, thereby having their cake and eating it too. My tolerance is not as great as it was in 2012.
In general I find that I have less patience for cop procedurals now than I did in my early- and mid-20s. (Says the girl who got an X-Files tattoo last year...) Maybe I just OD'd on Bones and Criminal Minds? But even B99 exhausts me a little these days. As my politics have radicalized, I genuinely do have a harder time sitting through ~*copaganda*~. TXF is so far removed from any semblance of real-life criminal justice that it doesn't feel the same, but sometimes I watch all these police characters talking to each other and I just instinctively want to turn them off. IDK, it's a complicated feeling.
Crossover of this episode with The Americans, tbh. (Which I never did finish...)
My dear Watson. <3

1x12 "M."

"Reflection is for mirrors, can't you just hand me a report card?" Oh man I wish I had used this while working on my masters.
Random appearances from therapists is such a weird procedural staple. Well, actually lazy. "I need to have my main character verbalize or realize something, and I can't come up with an organic way to make it happen in the story. Time for a counseling scene!"
"I'm gonna miss this. Working with you. I think what you do is amazing." His shocked face!!
"I go where he goes, remember?" Wahhh!
I have no attachment to the revenge thing for Holmes, but kudos as always for JLM's performance.
haaaaaands and the "I'm gonna miss this" callback, that's good tv!!!